My sons Nursery is closed for training days can they still charge me?

[NurseryMum]

Hi

Just a quick question, the nursery my son goes to has informed me they will be closed for 1 day in Nov and 1 day in Dec for staff training, it is an incovience of course as i will have to take holidays at for for those days because the nursery is the only form of child care i have

But are they still allowed to charge me for those days they are closed, they are charging me half price?

Yes they are allowed to charge. I think the view is, they are having training to maintain standards, learn new procedures etc that will benefit all the children there. A pain I know, but they shouldn't happen often. They are like Inset days at school.

ok thanks, just wanted to double check

DD's nursery does it. They give the same reason as mrsmerton's ds's. They have five a year.

depends what your contract says.

we close for 1 x week at christmas and i do not charge as service has been withdrawn.

But thats because you are not working either isn't it? These training days are staffed.

Lucky you, ours charges full whack and they always have them on the same day so if you only have 2 days a week you are multiply b*ggered. I think they are alllowed to charge whatever they want, frankly.

Ours doesn't do this and I would not send my children to a nursery that charged for holidatys, training days or bank holidays.

If the service is not availoable, you shouldn;t pay.

Best to check the contract.

Ask the manager for 2 days in lieu, seems a bit off of them to charge you full whack.